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Rocky froorrying her lip and then licking it I’ain when she takesrooht into her bedroom

She shuts the door behind us and drags rab her hand and tug her down beside et off her feet, not me

When she doesn’t speak iize

“I’m sorry”

Her eyebrows draw together, but I keep going

“I’ this harder on you than it already was, Rock I know you didn’t plan this any reat things I don’t want to get in the way of any of that, and if insertingis too much—”

She shakes her head and squeezesyou’re getting yourself into I don’t know if you really have any idea how cruel they can be”

“I’ve been watching you for weeks now, Rock And I grew up in a house that contained the cruelest-worded, always criticalmy way”

“They’re going to attack you personally and go after your family—”

“Family’s all dead, Rock You and the baby—and my friends—are the only fa I can to be there for it every day of my life”

“Okay, but—”

“But nothing, baby This is it The beginning of the end”

“So, you really want to do this?” she asks, her voice s beside me at all the awards shows and events and all the other bullshit that revolves around Hollywood?”

Truthfully, I want to be a hell of a lotnot to put the cart before the horse this time

“Yes,” I say without hesitation